Our God Reigns (Part 3 of 3)

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Crisis doesn’t create faith, but it can reveal it! On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg wraps up a study in Daniel by considering how Daniel prayed persistently, despite a law forbidding it. Hear about the resulting punishment, deliverance, and destruction.

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0:00.0	Thank you. Facing a crisis does not create faith, but it can reveal faith.
0:32.0	And today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg looks at Daniel's persistent prayer life,
0:40.7	in spite of a law that made praying illegal.
0:50.5	We'll hear today about the resulting punishment and deliverance and destruction as we focus on Daniel chapter 6. Daniel's challenge is an unavoidable challenge. He still prayed. He did what he did. Someone has
1:05.2	observed there were doubtless times when his prayer duty refreshed and inspired him, and others when the custom brought no
1:13.6	immediate satisfaction, and he ended without feeling blessed. However, it is clear that he had
1:20.7	established this as a fixed point in his life, that irrespective of his feelings, through it, he maintained the reality and strength of his
1:32.0	communion with God. You see, the exercise of prayer may provide for us a sense of his presence,
1:42.0	but it may not. And in Daniel's life, he was committed, whether up or down.
1:50.9	He was distinguished. He was despised. He was disciplined. And he was dumped. And here we finally
1:59.1	get him in so that we can spend a moment and get him back out again.
2:03.5	The king had been trapped by his own piece of legislation, which gives me an opportunity to read
2:08.9	one of my other favorite poems, because he's hoisted on his own pittard in the same way that
2:16.0	happened to the man who invented radar.
2:18.3	He was a Scotsman. His name was Robert Watson Watt, and he invented radar in the time of the Second World War.
2:26.3	He was rewarded $140,000 for it. It was the highest award ever paid for a wartime invention.
2:32.3	While he was driving in Canada, he was caught for speeding
2:36.2	in a radar trap. And he wrote this verse about it. Pity, Sir Robert Watson Watt, strange target of his
2:46.2	radar plot, and thus with others I could mention a victim of his own invention. And that is exactly
2:54.1	what we find in the case of the king. He is now victimized by the way in which he has been
2:59.5	cajoled and maneuvered into issuing this edict. And in verse 14, we're told that he was
3:06.1	distressed when he heard these things and he set his mind to
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